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enIs It Worth $5 a Month to See a Lock-Screen Ad When You Open Your Phone?http://www.adweek.com/news/technology/it-worth-5-month-see-lock-screen-ad-every-time-you-open-your-phone-169214
Christopher Heine<img src="http://www.adweek.com/files/imagecache/node-detail/2016_Jan/cash-mobile-ad-hed-2016.png"> <p>
Unlockd has a pitch that resonates with advertisers nowadays: Your mobile promos <a href="http://www.adweek.com/news/technology/iab-chief-blasts-adblock-plus-immoral-mendacious-coven-techie-wannabes-169194" target="_blank">will not be blocked</a> on our platform. The Australian startup, which is backed by <a href="http://www.adweek.com/topic/news-corp" target="_blank">News Corp.</a> founder Rupert Murdoch&#39;s son, serves ads via Android users&#39; lock screens.</p>
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And now, thanks to a deal with Sprint-owned Boost Mobile, Unlockd is coming to America. Unlockd serves ads to folks once every three times they wake up their phones and enter their passwords. Boost is utilizing Unlockd&#39;s tech to power <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=boost.us.com.boostapp&amp;hl=en" target="_blank">Boost Dealz</a>, an Android app that takes $5 off a user&#39;s monthly bill in exchange for engaging with brands.&nbsp;Levi&#39;s, Starbucks, Lyft, Hulu and EA Sports are among the early advertisers testing the platform in the U.S.</p>
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<img alt="" src="http://www.adweek.com/files/2016_Jan/yahoo-levis_0.png" style="width: 250px; height: 334px; float: right;" />But is five bucks enough for consumers to constantly view lock-screen ads?&nbsp;</p>
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&quot;Our business model is [partly] to provide a discount to consumers as a value exchange,&quot; explained Matt Berriman, CEO of Unlockd. At the same time, he said, his product team aims to supply Boost Dealz users with exclusive content and special offers from the brands. For instance, Levi&#39;s pitched 30 percent off during the holidays. (See example on the right.)</p>
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&quot;Research has shown that consumers are willing to engage with relevant and contextual information,&quot; Berriman said.&nbsp;</p>
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They also open their phones 150 times a day on average, he added, while millennials do so 200 times a day. That&#39;s a lot of promotional opportunities that don&#39;t have to contend with dreaded ad blockers.&nbsp;</p>
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Unlockd, which raised $15 million from investors&mdash;including News Corp. co-chairman Lachlan Murdoch&mdash;in October, seems similar to <a href="http://www.adweek.com/news/technology/brands-are-lining-reach-locket-s-150000-users-152780" target="_blank">Locket</a>, an app that monetarily rewarded uses for looking at ads. Locket was <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/14/mobile-shopping-app-wish-buys-android-lockscreen-app-maker-locket/" target="_blank">purchased</a> by mobile shopping startup Wish, which integrated the app into its system, last summer.&nbsp;</p>
TechnologyBoost MobileEA SportsHuluLevi'sLocketMobileStarbucksUnlockdTue, 26 Jan 2016 20:47:43 +0000169214 at http://www.adweek.comBoost Mobile's 'Come to Data' Ad Campaign Is Pervy and Totally Ungodlyhttp://www.adweek.com/adfreak/boost-mobiles-come-data-ad-campaign-pervy-and-totally-ungodly-164085
T.L. Stanley<img src="http://www.adweek.com/files/imagecache/node-detail/blogs/boost-mobile-bathroom-hed-2015.png"> <p>
Your inner barbarian tells you it&#39;s quite all right to use your mobile phone anytime, anywhere. Play that dice game at the urinal? Sure, even though it requires vigorous arm-shaking motions that make you look like a perv in such a setting. Schmuck don&#39;t care! Unlimited data, people!</p>
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Boost Mobile encourages all manner of loutish phone behavior with new digital ads from 180LA that use a suggestive tagline, &quot;Come to data,&quot; along with a creepy, salacious &quot;voice in your head&quot; narration. Or maybe the brand is just acknowledging what&#39;s already happening when users can&#39;t tear themselves away from their devices even long enough to tinkle without distraction or listen to a confession. (Who has to do the penance in the latter case&mdash;the sinner or the priest?)</p>
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There are Vines and short videos in the campaign, which may serve as inspiration for the uncouth or cautionary tales for the mannerly, and could&#39;ve been called, &quot;Decorum is so overrated.&quot;<br />
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<strong>CREDITS</strong><br />
Client: Boost Mobile<br />
Director, Sprint Prepaid Group: Peiti Feng<br />
Manager, Brand Advertising, Creative, Wally Fox<br />
Brand Manager, Social Media, Brand Integration: Jill Johnson<br />
Advertising Manager, Mario Cardenas<br />
Social Media, Brand Integration, Bre Cohen</p>
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Campaign: &quot;Come to Data&quot;</p>
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Agency: 180LA<br />
Managing Partner, Chief Creative Officer: William Gelner<br />
Creative Directors: Mike Bokman, Jason Rappaport<br />
Copywritera: Chris Elzinga, Daniel Chen<br />
Art Directors: Marcus Cross, Jenny Kang<br />
Head of Account Management: Chad Bettor<br />
Associate Account Director: Paul Kinsella<br />
Social Media Account Manager: Olivia Watson<br />
Head of Production: Natasha Wellesley<br />
Senior Producer: Lindsey Wood<br />
Associate Producer: Lauren Prushan<br />
Business Affairs Manager: Ivy Chen</p>
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Production Company: Treefort<br />
Director: Shillick<br />
Producer: Mike Begovich<br />
Director of Photographyh: Max Gutierrez</p>
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Editing Company: Treefort (Web films), Melvin (Vines)<br />
Editors: Josh Hegard (Web films), Dave Groseclose (Vines)<br />
Color, Online Finishing: Sam Maliszewski, Melvin<br />
Sound Design, Mix: Eddie Kim, Therapy</p>
Advertising & Branding180Boost MobileCreativeAgencyWed, 15 Apr 2015 15:21:07 +0000164085 at http://www.adweek.comHot Mobile App Snapguide Integrates With Pinteresthttp://www.adweek.com/news/technology/hot-mobile-app-snapguide-integrates-pinterest-139853
Tim Peterson<img src="http://www.adweek.com/files/imagecache/node-detail/news_article/snapguide-hed-2012.jpg"> <p>
When <em>The New York Times</em> <a href="http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/29/snapguide-makes-anyone-a-guide/" target="_blank">covers</a> your launch, you&rsquo;re not an average tech startup. When you become the first Apple app to integrate with Pinterest, you solidify that vaunted status. Less than a month old&mdash;and with only seven full-time employees (in typical startup fashion)&mdash;Snapguide has done both.</p>
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The company, which specializes in user-generated how-to content, updated its Apple app on Wednesday with the ability to share to Pinterest. Snapguide founder and CEO Daniel Raffel talked with <em>Adweek</em> about how that happened.</p>
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&ldquo;Basically Pinterest was interested in exploring ways that they could [entice app developers to build something that would] enable sharing [via Snapguide]. So one of their engineers came over and spent a couple hours over a weekend working with us in the office, and we basically built this with them,&rdquo; Raffel said. For users to share to Pinterest through Snapguide, they must have the Pinterest app downloaded to their iOS device.</p>
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There&rsquo;s a natural fit between the two startups, Raffel said, with Snapguide users taking photos and compiling them into tutorials that can serve as content for Pinterest boards&mdash;or conceivably the boards themselves. It doesn&rsquo;t hurt that Pinterest is &ldquo;neck-and-neck with Twitter&rdquo; as one of Snapguide&rsquo;s top third-party referrers, even though the only Pinterest integration before today was a Pinterest button on <a href="http://www.snapguide.com" target="_blank">Snapguide&rsquo;s website</a>.</p>
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Snapguide&rsquo;s update is noteworthy considering the growing interest among developers in building applications on top of Pinterest&rsquo;s platform (like has happened with Facebook and Twitter). Why is that such a big deal? Consider that while Instagram built a stellar product, it largely developed its user base through Facebook&rsquo;s and Twitter&rsquo;s platforms, which allowed users to share their content to the social networks. Then consider Instagram&rsquo;s $1 billion sale to Facebook.</p>
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But Raffel said the Snapguide and Pinterest partnership may be the start of a major developer outreach, or may be a special case.</p>
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It&rsquo;s not just developers who should keep an eye on Pinterest&#39;s approach to app developments. Nathaniel Perez, global head of social media at SapientNitro, said Pinterest is still an experimental channel for most clients, but the app ecosystem that could conceivably grow out of Pinterest&#39;s platform would nudge brands toward taking a harder look. Plus, brands could elect to construct Pinterest experiences on top of the company&#39;s platform, rather than building their own Pinterest boards.</p>
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&ldquo;I think the ability to leverage the content in the context of, say, an app or website experience or contest becomes really interesting because each of these things can drive back to the originating sources [such as a brand site],&rdquo; Perez said.</p>
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Given the <a href="/node/138405">marketer curiosity surrounding Pinterest</a>, it&rsquo;s no surprise that Raffel was fielding calls from brands within hours of the update being announced on Wednesday and is in talks with &ldquo;a few publicly traded billion-dollar companies&rdquo; about marketing opportunities on Snapguide. Snapguide doesn&rsquo;t run ads within its mobile or Web apps, but Raffel said Snapguide was developed as &ldquo;a natural place for a brand to expand themselves into.&rdquo;</p>
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He continued, &ldquo;At some point in the near future, we&rsquo;re going to enable a way for users to browse by topic, and you can imagine a scenario where some topics are sponsored by third parties and the content that exists in those topics could be curated or even created by the sponsor.&rdquo; Raffel added that Snapguide&rsquo;s first brand partnership will bow within the next month.</p>
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Snapguide could also ease marketers&rsquo; concerns that running initiatives on Pinterest would require the brand to constantly monitor content for any possible copyright violations. That&rsquo;s something that Pinterest sought to clear up in <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/24/pinterest-terms-api-copyrigh/" target="_blank">updating</a> its terms of service, acceptable use policy and privacy policy earlier this month. But Perez said brands still worry about any moderation burdens. Raffel said Snapguide has a proprietary content moderation tool, and Perez said that a brand getting involved with Snapguide as a sponsor of already curated content &ldquo;could solve a lot of copyright issues.&rdquo;</p>
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While Snapguide is still very much a startup, it&rsquo;s seen solid success since launching on March 29. Raffel said its &ldquo;hundreds of thousands of users&rdquo; average more than 23 minutes spent in the app, with 7.6 million items shared to Facebook thus far and the average how-to guide garnering 400 views.</p>
TechnologyBoost MobileFacebookInstagramMobileMobilePinterestSapientNitroTwitterWed, 25 Apr 2012 22:44:51 +0000139853 at http://www.adweek.comAd of the Day: Boost Mobilehttp://www.adweek.com/news/advertising-branding/ad-day-boost-mobile-138101
Gabriel Beltrone<img src="http://www.adweek.com/files/imagecache/node-detail/news_article/boost-mobile.jpg"> <p>
Boost Mobile wants you to feel safe.</p>
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The Sprint-owned mobile provider is out with a new spot that parodies the slit-your-throat thriller genre to peddle its &quot;Shrinkage&quot; plan&mdash;an option, the company claims, that will spare you any regularly scheduled terror your current, murderous phone statement may inflict upon you. Created by 180 Los Angeles, &quot;Bill From Hell&quot; sets a faux-ominous tone from the start, opening on a shadowy figure walking down a desolate street on a rainy night. Flaunting the stereotypical homicidal-maniac look&mdash;gaunt, with scraggly hair&mdash;he&#39;s oblivious to the downpour, and able to set a yapping dog whimpering with a withering stare. After breaking into an apartment building, he marches up the stairs and smashes his victim&#39;s front door into splinters in a state of rage. Then he tosses the cowering occupant a parcel. No machete. No boat hook. No blood-curdling scream. Just a fat package full of ulcer-inducing overage minutes.</p>
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&quot;I&#39;m so sick of fearing my monthly bills!&quot; explains a thought bubble that pops up, credited as an actual tweet from @MRabin17. &quot;We hear you,&quot; assures the voiceover, taking the opportunity to pitch you on the flat-rate monthly offering, which shrinks in cost with on-time payments. The spot is a well-executed personification of the commonplace anxiety caused by phone bills. Sure, the <em>I Know What You Did Last Summer</em> vibe is dated and cheesy, but the message is resonant enough. And as jarring as the inclusion of a tweet bubble in a TV spot feels, it gets the brand&#39;s point across.</p>
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So, switch to Boost, and next time someone tries to break down you door, at least you&#39;ll be sure it&#39;s not your mail that&#39;s out to kill you.<br />
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<strong>CREDITS</strong><br />
Client: Boost Mobile<br />
Spot: &quot;Bill From Hell&quot;<br />
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Agency: 180 Los Angeles<br />
Executive Creative Director: William Gelner<br />
Creative Directors: Matt Elhardt, Gavin Lester<br />
Copywriter: Dave Horton<br />
Art Director: Matthew Woodhams-Roberts<br />
Executive Producer, Managing Partner: Peter Cline<br />
Senior Producer: Natasha Wellesley<br />
Assistant Producer: Tina Diep<br />
Group Account Director: Chad Bettor<br />
Account Director: Jerico Cabaysa<br />
Account Manager: Cassie Jackson<br />
Planning Director: Martin Ramos<br />
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<strong>Production</strong><br />
Production Company: Imperial Woodpecker<br />
Director: Simon McQuoid<br />
Director of Photography: Dion Beebe<br />
Senior Executive Producer: Doug Halbert<br />
Producer: Adam Cramer<br />
Production Designer: Robb Buono<br />
Stylist: Gretchen Patch<br />
Casting Company: Alyson Horn Casting<br />
Casting Director: Alyson Horn<br />
Shoot Location: Los Angeles<br />
Shoot Dates: Jan. 22-23<br />
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<strong>Editorial</strong><br />
Editorial Company: Cut &amp; Run<br />
Editors: Steve Gandolfi, Isaac Chen<br />
Executive Producer: Michelle Burke<br />
Head of Broadcast: Christie Price<br />
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<strong>Completion, Special Effects</strong><br />
Colorist: Adam Scott<br />
Transfer Facility: The Mill<br />
Online, VFX: The Mill<br />
VFX Supervisor: Phil Crowe<br />
Flame Artist: Andy Bate<br />
Executive Producer: Sue Troyan<br />
VFX Producer: Tram Le<br />
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<strong>Recording, Mix</strong><br />
Recording Studio: Eleven Sound<br />
Date: Jan. 31<br />
Final Mix: Eleven Sound<br />
Dates: Feb. 1-2<br />
Mixer: Jeff Payne<br />
Assisrtant Mixer: Ben Freer<br />
Executive Producer: D.J. Fox-Engstrom<br />
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<strong>Music</strong><br />
Music Company Elias Arts<br />
Composers: Christopher Kemp, Dave Wittman<br />
Creative Director: David Gold<br />
Executive Producer: Ann Haugen<br />
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<strong>Sound Design</strong><br />
Sound Design Company: Elias Arts<br />
Lead Sound Designer: Jay Nierenberg<br />
Executive Producer: Ann Haugen<br />
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<strong>Client</strong><br />
Director, Brand Marketing: Caralene Robinson<br />
Senior Manager, Advertising: Peiti Feng<br />
Advertising Manager: Arlin Morales<br />
Creative Marketing Manager: Wally Fox<br />
Senior Manager, Brand Marketing: Geraldine Morrison<br />
Brand Marketing Manager: Marisa Schaeffer</p>
Advertising & Branding180Ad of The DayBoost MobileTelecomCreativeAgencyTue, 07 Feb 2012 16:52:34 +0000138101 at http://www.adweek.comBoost Mobile Offering Plans Without the Puppetshttp://www.adweek.com/adfreak/boost-mobile-offering-plans-without-puppets-131012
Tim Nudd<img src="http://www.adweek.com/files/imagecache/node-detail/blogs/puppets_-_boost_mobile_tv_commercial.jpg"> <p>
Here&#39;s an amusing little spot from 180 for Boost Mobile. It&#39;s populated by ceaselessly upbeat puppets who hound our hero from the moment he wakes up. Like most of this carrier&#39;s commercials, this one has a humorously dark edge. The guy here has no time for childish pursuits&mdash;and no wonder, as the puppets themselves come off as insane and menacing. Still, our favorite Boost commercial remains the one with <a href="/node/14552">the pigs feasting on swine</a>&mdash;aka &quot;enjoying the flavors of a fallen friend.&quot; The porkers&#39; hand gestures alone made that spot golden.&nbsp;<br />
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Advertising & Branding180Boost MobileTelecomTue, 26 Apr 2011 14:45:47 +0000131012 at http://www.adweek.comBoost shrinkage is great for unhappy giantshttp://www.adweek.com/adfreak/boost-shrinkage-great-unhappy-giants-11997
David Gianatasio<p><a href="http://adweek.blogs.com/adfreak/2010/11/boost-shrinkage-is-great-for-unhappy-giants.html" style="display: inline;"><img alt="Boost-giant" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c51c053ef0133f5863231970b" src="/files/adfreak/6a00d8341c51c053ef0133f5863231970b-450wi" style="width: 425px;" title="Boost-giant" /></a></p>
<p>In this new spot, 180LA and Boost Mobile present a giant grocery-store manager who knocks over shelves, ogles cute gals in the aisles and generally makes a nuisance of himself. So, he&#39;s not much different than his normal-size counterparts at Costco. The point is, Boost can&#39;t reduce the 20-foot-tall freak&#39;s height, but it can reduce his cellular bill with a monthly-unlimited plan, &quot;now with shrinkage.&quot; Personally, I&#39;m not that interested in any more shrinkage, but when I call up and ask for a few more inches, they hang up. <a href="http://adweek.blogs.com/adfreak/2009/03/its-a-hog-eat-hog-world-in-latest-boost-spot.html" target="_self">Hey, I thought they catered to pigs!</a></p>
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</p>http://www.adweek.com/adfreak/boost-shrinkage-great-unhappy-giants-11997#commentsAdvertising & Branding180Boost MobileGianatasioTelecomTue, 02 Nov 2010 13:35:14 +000011997 at http://www.adweek.comLife without Boost Mobile hard for dog-boyshttp://www.adweek.com/adfreak/life-without-boost-mobile-hard-dog-boys-13024
Adweek Blogs<p><a href="http://adweek.blogs.com/.a/6a00d8341c51c053ef01310f2eaa64970c-pi" style="display: inline;"><img alt="Dog-boy" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c51c053ef01310f2eaa64970c " src="/files/adfreak/6a00d8341c51c053ef01310f2eaa64970c-450wi" style="width: 425px;" /></a> </p> <p>Kids are soft these days. Case in point: 180/LA&#39;s latest &quot;<a href="http://adweek.blogs.com/adfreak/boost-mobile/" target="_blank">Unwrong&#39;d</a>&quot; spot for Boost Mobile (posted below), which shows a youngster who travels inside a pet cage so the family can save money on their cellular bill. The whiny little prince wants a coloring book for the long airplane ride? Pipe down, dog-boy. Back in my day, they&#39;d lash kids to the wing, and we&#39;d have to squint through those little windows to watch the in-flight movie. Still, it&#39;s better than flying Southwest today. They lock me in a furniture crate with a treadmill and call it the &quot;<a href="http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20344142,00.html" target="_blank">Kevin Smith special</a>.&quot;</p><p><em>—Posted by David Gianatasio</em></p>
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Adweek Blogs<p><object height="264" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/mMDksb0T90M&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%2526fmt%3D18&amp;showinfo=0" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><embed allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" height="264" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/mMDksb0T90M&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%2526fmt%3D18&amp;showinfo=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" /></object>
</p><p>Santa Claus and Mrs. Claus star in separate Christmas-themed Boost Mobile ads from agency 180, part of the long-running &quot;Unwrong&#39;d&quot; campaign. When it comes to wrongness, Mrs. Claus is way ahead of her husband, engaging in some icy-hot lovemaking with a snowman in the stop-motion animated spot above. (Her friend can handle the heat of passion but not the hairdryer that&#39;s turned on him when the big man returns unexpectedly.) Santa, meanwhile, burdened by large cell-phone bills, has been forced to make some cutbacks in the spot below, and has replaced his reindeer with mules. Which seems like a minor sin by comparison, and he doesn&#39;t seem amorous toward any of his new hires, either. </p><p><em>—Posted by Tim Nudd</em></p>
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<p>See also: <br /><a href="http://adweek.blogs.com/adfreak/2009/02/boost-mobile-ratchets-up-the-repugnance.html" target="_blank">Boost Mobile ratchets up the repugnance</a><br /><a href="http://adweek.blogs.com/adfreak/2009/02/use-boost-mobile-or-get-mauled-by-dogs.html" target="_blank">Use Boost Mobile, or get mauled by dogs</a><br /><a href="http://adweek.blogs.com/adfreak/2009/03/its-a-hog-eat-hog-world-in-latest-boost-spot.html" target="_blank">It&#39;s a hog-eat-hog world in latest Boost spot</a><br /><a href="http://adweek.blogs.com/adfreak/2009/05/danica-signs-man-boobs-in-boost-mobile-ad.html" target="_blank">Danica signs man boobs in Boost Mobile ad</a></p>http://www.adweek.com/adfreak/boost-mobile-has-mrs-claus-naughty-list-13327#commentsAdvertising & Branding180Boost MobileHolidaysNuddTelecomTue, 01 Dec 2009 15:39:41 +000013327 at http://www.adweek.comNail-gunned Boost Mobile guy gets off easyhttp://www.adweek.com/adfreak/nail-gunned-boost-mobile-guy-gets-easy-13801
Adweek Blogs<p><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/4r6_J-AY8XM&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%2526fmt%3D18&amp;showinfo=0" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><embed allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/4r6_J-AY8XM&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%2526fmt%3D18&amp;showinfo=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" /></object>
</p><p>The guy in Inspire&#39;s latest Hispanic spot for Boost Mobile doesn&#39;t flinch as nails get shot into his back and neck. This is understandable. Sure, he&#39;s been abused by rival carriers and can take a lot of pain—that&#39;s the theme of the campaign. But also, he&#39;s probably knows it could be worse. Based on Boost&#39;s recent ads, he could&#39;ve landed on a slab in the morgue; been mauled by dogs; grown floppy man-boobs; had lunch with a talking hog bent on devouring his porky pals; or tooled around on a bike with some chick&#39;s impossibly long, flowing underarm hair tickling his face. What&#39;s a few nails in the back? A few dabs of iodine, and he&#39;s as good as new. <br /><br /><em>—Posted by David Gianatasio</em></p><p>See also: <br /><a href="http://adweek.blogs.com/adfreak/2009/02/boost-mobile-ratchets-up-the-repugnance.html" target="_blank">Boost Mobile ratchets up the repugnance</a><br /><a href="http://adweek.blogs.com/adfreak/2009/02/use-boost-mobile-or-get-mauled-by-dogs.html" target="_blank">Use Boost Mobile, or get mauled by dogs</a><br /><a href="http://adweek.blogs.com/adfreak/2009/03/its-a-hog-eat-hog-world-in-latest-boost-spot.html" target="_blank">It&#39;s a hog-eat-hog world in latest Boost spot</a><br /><a href="http://adweek.blogs.com/adfreak/2009/05/danica-signs-man-boobs-in-boost-mobile-ad.html" target="_blank">Danica signs man boobs in Boost Mobile ad</a></p>http://www.adweek.com/adfreak/nail-gunned-boost-mobile-guy-gets-easy-13801#commentsAdvertising & BrandingBoost MobileGianatasioInspireTelecomWed, 12 Aug 2009 14:03:48 +000013801 at http://www.adweek.comDanica signs man boobs in Boost Mobile adhttp://www.adweek.com/adfreak/danica-signs-man-boobs-boost-mobile-ad-14119
Adweek Blogs<p><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/2fGQUKg8D6c&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%2526fmt%3D18&amp;showinfo=0" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><embed allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/2fGQUKg8D6c&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%2526fmt%3D18&amp;showinfo=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" /></object>
</p><p>Danica Patrick has joined 180LA&#39;s &quot;Unwrong&#39;d&quot; campaign for Boost Mobile, following in the proud hoofsteps of <a href="http://adweek.blogs.com/adfreak/2009/03/its-a-hog-eat-hog-world-in-latest-boost-spot.html" target="_blank">those cannibalistic pigs from a few months ago</a>. The setup is the same as the earlier spots: The viewer is subjected to some unpleasant visuals—in this case, Patrick signing man boobs and being tended to by a pit team in drag—and is then told that&#39;s not as &quot;wrong&quot; as getting screwed over by your mobile carrier. Go Daddy&#39;s Bob Parsons is going to be livid when he finds out that Danica signed any kind of boobs in someone else&#39;s ad. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial;">UPDATE:</span> Also check out the third video below for a peek behind the scenes of the spots. It includes some choice quotes from 180LA&#39;s William Gelner, who says that channeling the insanity of his creative team into a Boost ad is like herding cats.<br /><br /><em>—Posted by Tim Nudd</em></p>
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<p><object height="264" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/z0T3hSygMek&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%2526fmt%3D18&amp;showinfo=0" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><embed allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" height="264" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/z0T3hSygMek&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%2526fmt%3D18&amp;showinfo=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" /></object></p>http://www.adweek.com/adfreak/danica-signs-man-boobs-boost-mobile-ad-14119#commentsAdvertising & Branding180laBoost MobileNuddTelecomWed, 27 May 2009 15:40:30 +000014119 at http://www.adweek.comBoost Mobile has bus-stop paper shreddershttp://www.adweek.com/adfreak/boost-mobile-has-bus-stop-paper-shredders-14392
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</p><p>Boost Mobile may be trying to atone for recent sins (<a href="http://adweek.blogs.com/adfreak/2009/03/its-a-hog-eat-hog-world-in-latest-boost-spot.html" target="_blank">the
pigs-eating-ham commercial, for one thing</a>) with this neat little
public-service offering: live paper shredders at bus stops in Chicago
and Boston, where you can shred your existing phone-company contracts
(or, presumably, anything that implicates you in a Ponzi scheme). Ad
agency 180LA created the shredders, which are one of three new bus-stop
executions for the brand. The other two seem a bit less useful—a big
hose and an extra-large screw, to remind the public that they can get
unhose&#39;d and unscrew&#39;d with Boost. <br />
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<em>—Posted by Tim Nudd</em></p>http://www.adweek.com/adfreak/boost-mobile-has-bus-stop-paper-shredders-14392#commentsAdvertising & Branding180Boost MobileNuddTelecomThu, 02 Apr 2009 21:00:21 +000014392 at http://www.adweek.comIt's a Hog-Eat-Hog World in Latest Boost Spothttp://www.adweek.com/adfreak/its-hog-eat-hog-world-latest-boost-spot-14552
Tim Nudd<p>
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Boost Mobile is covering all the distasteful bases with its &quot;Unwrong&#39;d&quot; campaign from 180LA. Following the earlier ads with <a href="http://adweek.blogs.com/adfreak/2009/02/boost-mobile-ratchets-up-the-repugnance.html" target="_blank">the unhygienic coroner and the hirsute woman cyclist</a>, we have this spot featuring a couple of pigs stuffing themselves on a giant ham at a restaurant. &quot;You think that&#39;s wrong?&quot; one of them asks. &quot;We&#39;re just enjoying the flavors of a fallen friend.&quot; Digging on swine, he adds, isn&#39;t as wrong as getting a raw deal from your cell-phone company. Physically, these pigs look like <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab8X-I-cXEo" target="_blank">extras from that old Trojan campaign</a>, but their sensibility is more in line with Chicago&#39;s favorite cannibalistic spokescreatures, <a href="http://adweek.blogs.com/adfreak/2007/02/moo_oink_celebr.html" target="_blank">Moo and Oink</a>.</p>
http://www.adweek.com/adfreak/its-hog-eat-hog-world-latest-boost-spot-14552#commentsAdvertising & Branding180Boost MobileFreakyNuddTelecomWed, 04 Mar 2009 13:51:31 +000014552 at http://www.adweek.comBoost Mobile ratchets up the repugnancehttp://www.adweek.com/adfreak/boost-mobile-ratchets-repugnance-14605
Adweek Blogs<p><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/nvTzJ4jlluA&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%2526fmt%3D18&amp;showinfo=0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/nvTzJ4jlluA&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%2526fmt%3D18&amp;showinfo=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="344"></object></p><p>To think, just last week, I thought Boost Mobile's <a href="http://adweek.blogs.com/adfreak/2009/02/use-boost-mobile-or-get-mauled-by-dogs.html">latest
Spanish-language ad</a> was annoying. Well, the English-language effort by 180LA is downright disgusting. The lead character in "Coroner" drops his breakfast burrito
inside a corpse during an autopsy, plucks it out and continues eating
it. But that's not the disturbing part. Wait until the end of the spot
for the cutesy smooshed-together-word tagline, "UNwrong'D."
With an apostrophe no less! Makes my skin crawl. So does the "Bike"
spot, featured below. Come on, a super-nerd like that scores a long-haired hottie?!
UNlikel'Y.<br><br><em>—Posted by David Gianatasio</em></p><p>
</p><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/iT89qfDx3yM&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%2526fmt%3D18&amp;showinfo=0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/iT89qfDx3yM&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%2526fmt%3D18&amp;showinfo=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="344"></object>http://www.adweek.com/adfreak/boost-mobile-ratchets-repugnance-14605#commentsAdvertising & Branding180Boost MobileGianatasioGrossTelecomMon, 23 Feb 2009 13:05:29 +000014605 at http://www.adweek.com